A few years ago, I went to this medical office to have my shoulder evaluated by the same doctor that had previously operated on my hip. Due to his doing a satisfactory job on my hip I decided to see if he was also practiced at shoulder surgery. After waiting almost a week and a half and getting an appointment with Dr. Douglas Holden he explained to me that he was not doing hip surgeries any longer, and that he was focused on shoulder surgeries, which was to include tears.
After being sent and responding to an imaging center to have an MRI done, it was confirmed that there was a rotator cuff tear to my left shoulder. At the time we had not had about any other injury and made a plan to have the surgery on my shoulder and this was because Dr. Holden, although it had been some years since he operated on my hip, but at that time he was mainly doing hip-hop operations and not shoulder operations.
our he expressed being very certain that he could correct the problem with my shoulder and he expected that I would make a full . After having the operation and Dr. Holden claiming that he was able to repair the rotator cuff tear and he also found that my bicep had torn away and needed to be repaired also while he was in the surgery. A short time after the surgery, I responded to a office of my choice and one that he was well aware of called Third Space medical, which was in .
During my visits to Physical Therapy, I had some unusual pain in the shoulder that the doctor had and Physical Therapy had expressed some concern about the pain I was having. After a series of follow up visits with Dr. Holden in a different office than their New Jersey office I expressed some concern because my shoulder was not healing and I was having more pain than the people at Physical Therapy had expected. After two follow up visits with Dr. Holden he show up at the but one of his underlings had shown up and had told me that I had met all the visits that required and permitted by the insurance company and that the shoulder should be just fine with more .
more weeks of and having nearly as much pain that I had prior to the the physical therapist I was seeing had recommended that I go for another MRI to check to see what could be causing the pain that I was having. After receiving the results from my MRI and bringing it to the therapist, the showed that there was still tears to my rotator cuff that the doctor had . On several occasions, I contacted the office doctor was working and they kept telling me that I had used all the visits that the insurance company would pay for and that I would any further visits to Garden State orthopedics and Dr. Holden.
Due to me being in my late 60s I chose not to have another surgery because I had a very bad experience with this surgery and did not want to go through another 6 to 12 weeks of and not having to use of my arm. After approximately one year, I began getting requests by Garden State orthopedics for an additional $1800.00 at which time I sent them a letter explaining why they would not be receiving the payments because Dr. Holden had failed me and did not correct the injury that I had had after he promised that there should be no fixing the damage to my shoulder.
It is very clear that Dr. Holden is not a man of his and his office was very obnoxious and nasty when I was going through the pre-operation and mentioned that there was issues with the paperwork that stated I would be responsible for things that were always covered by my and at the time his office person who is in charge of the paperwork and the finances got very abrupt with me, and even my wife that was with me was very upset that they would speak to me the way they did at the time.
Several times I called up and I wanted to speak with Dr. Holden about the issue and each and every time his people that answered the phone refused to allow me to speak with him and told me that either I pay him the money or they would send it to and I told they could do whatever they like because he complete the operation in the . It is now well over three years and I'm being threatened by his office to send the overdue to collections and I'm not interested in paying him any further money as he did not do the surgery and fix the injury in the manner he promised.
After having my hip several years ago, I recommended at least six other people to Garden State orthopedics of mine out to them and looked at their said they would not go to this orthopedic center, and then I took a look at the ratings and it was very very distressing to see group of doctors with five star ratings had dropped down to a three star rating which told me that they would be becoming more of a clinic than a high-end orthopedic doctor agency.
As it stands today, I would never recommend anyone to Dr. Douglas Holden or his orthopedic group after his seeing how his ratings had fallen in a few short years. read more
